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Oceania had always been at war with East Asia

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Welp. While editing a textbook, I just encountered my first use of “Gulf of America.”

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The Darts are the best garage rock band in the world right now. They rocked the Cloudland in Minneapolis last night and—after a tough day in Minnesota—it was so life-affirming and fun.

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It’s really fun seeing the strong turnout at the protests contrasted with the weak turnout at the birthday parade. Maybe it doesn’t mean a whole lot in the grand scheme of things, but it gives all of is in the opposition a much-needed morale boost.

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This goes out to the would-be king whose little birthday military parade he threw for himself (at the expense of the taxpayers) turned out to be a dud—due yo weather and general lack of interest. youtu.be/-hXlVyz8LwU?...

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New T-shirt

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I introduced experimental postmodernist feminist novelist Kathy Acker at a reading when I worked at a bookstore. I had to mention that she’d be reading from her new book, “Pussy, Queen of the Pirates.” Her audience looked disgusted with me.

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Sure would be nice if we still had that multinational agreement to end Iran’s nukes program right now, but some idiot U.S. president trashed that agreement back in 2017. Who was that president?

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This is not the mission they said was bringing them to LA. Kristi Noem puts the “creep” in “mission creep.”

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Just remembering when a Republican congressman interrupted a State of the Union speech to yell at the POTUS. He got a reprimand, but no one forcefully ejected him from the chamber or had him handcuffed.

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Waiting to get my hair cut as Kiss’ turgid 1979 disco crossover hit “I Was Made for Loving You” plays on the speakers. Across from me, an 11-year-old sports a McLusky T-shirt.

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Sly Stone was a genius. I love this performance, where he sounds so laid back it’s almost too much. youtu.be/UpUCJWlN0sE?...

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Just thinking about how in 1995 George HW Bush made a big show of renouncing his membership after the NRA referred to federal agents as “jackbooted thugs.” www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

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Yesterday: “Don’t let this feud over the budget bill distract you from the fact that the budget bill will kick millions of people off Medicaid!” Today: “Is this Supreme Court decision just to distract us from the feud?”

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Does a vampire’s hair grow?

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